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Half of post-WWII interior ministry were ex-Nazis (West Germany)
TheLocal.de ^ | 07 Nov 2015 11:00 GMT+01:00 | Jörg Luyken

Posted on 11/07/2015 4:20:33 PM PST by Olog-hai

For two decades after the Second World War, over half of all employees of the West German interior ministry were ex-Nazis, a new study shows.

The research, carried out by the Center for Contemporary Historical Studies with the blessing of the Interior Ministry, shows that the number of ex-Nazi party members in both the West and East German postwar administrations was much higher than previously thought.

In exact figures, an average of 54 percent of civil servants in the West German interior ministry were former Nazis, although at its high point between 1966 and 1961, two-thirds of all employees at the ministry had been Nazi party members during the war. ...

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TOPICS: History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: bundestag; eussr; fordummies; germany; interiorministry; sa; sturmabteilung; westgermany; ww2
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Nazi’s In Name Only


21 posted on 11/07/2015 4:45:10 PM PST by EEGator
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To: dfwgator

We certainly did. And his most notable act was declaring the existence of the state of Israel “racism”.


22 posted on 11/07/2015 4:45:31 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: PAR35

And Patton was absolutely right.


23 posted on 11/07/2015 4:45:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ozzymandus

They are one fifth of today’s Duma.


24 posted on 11/07/2015 4:46:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: ozzymandus

Exactly like soviet communists. The differences are esoteric and academic at best.


25 posted on 11/07/2015 4:46:06 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: max americana

Wernher von Braun was extremely important to NASA.


26 posted on 11/07/2015 4:48:02 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Nazis In Name Only


27 posted on 11/07/2015 4:49:57 PM PST by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: Olog-hai
She wasn't involved in politics until just before reunification

If you don't count her offices in the youth wing while in college - member of the district board and secretary of agit-prop for the communists.

28 posted on 11/07/2015 4:52:56 PM PST by PAR35
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To: EEGator

“Our Germans are better than their Germans.”


29 posted on 11/07/2015 4:53:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: PAR35

Sorry; should have specified the CDU, which was active in the East in 1989.


30 posted on 11/07/2015 4:54:11 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Look at Europe now: Had Germany’s side won would they have opened the floodgates to the Middle-East now...?

There would have been no crushing yoke of multi-culti war-guilt, and I don’t know how many 100’s of times people start yakking about the Mufti (I know all about him, and it’s true).

What we’re seeing now is an INVASION and none of it was brought on by people on the right.


31 posted on 11/07/2015 4:56:31 PM PST by gaijin
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To: dfwgator

YUP...!

Should have fought them THEN and have been DONE with it.


32 posted on 11/07/2015 4:57:32 PM PST by gaijin
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To: kiryandil

That was the “Space Race”. Or as I call it “Americas captured German scientists VS the USSR’s captured German scientists”.

=^)

CC


33 posted on 11/07/2015 4:59:03 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: EEGator

Goddard saw a V2 after the war and pointed out how it was stolen from his designs. Von Braun said Goddard saved them years of research.
Von Braun is a mixed bag, rockets would have happened about the same way with or without him.

And Goddard wasn’t tainted.


34 posted on 11/07/2015 4:59:26 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: PAR35
Yes, and we handed Iraq over to the Shi’ites to forestall perceived “chaos”.

Not that there was any short of chaos postwar anyhow, with the USSR getting more belligerent. Never mind how far left the federal government back home already was.
The number of ex-members of Hitler’s personal militia, the SA, was also surprisingly high, the report found, reaching a peak of 45 percent in 1961. …
What effects would something like that have had? The Stormtroopers were not casual national socialists.
35 posted on 11/07/2015 5:00:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How many civil servants in the Bush Administration were Democrats?


36 posted on 11/07/2015 5:01:23 PM PST by SeeSharp
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To: Olog-hai
Half of post-WWII interior ministry were ex-Nazis (West Germany)

Well Duh. Anyone who knew how to do anything in Germany post WWII was an ex Nazi. During the early 1930s and 1940s, if you weren't a Nazi, you were an enemy. Germans who weren't Nazis were pariahs, ergo everyone joined the Nazi party because they had to.

But our leaders after world war II had enough good sense to just prosecute the worst ones while telling the rest that if they hadn't done anything horrible, and if they kept their nose clean from there on out, they would be left alone.

It was the exact same method that SHOULD have been used in Iraq, but Nooooooo... Idiot super geniuses decided they knew better than WWII leadership.

Of course, Idiot Super Geniuses always make a horrible muck of things.

37 posted on 11/07/2015 5:01:37 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: gaijin

I would make the case that the world would have been much better off had Germany won WWI, and especially had Britain stayed out of the fight, and left France to her fate.


38 posted on 11/07/2015 5:01:54 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeeSharp

As many as were RINOs, as well.


39 posted on 11/07/2015 5:02:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: dfwgator

Why?


40 posted on 11/07/2015 5:02:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
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